“In an exceptional situation, exceptional response”: the mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan announced that he would “intervene urgently” on Tuesday trucks to “pick up the surplus garbage cans that block the streets”, due to a new strike garbage collectors.*
Thousands of tons of waste litter the streets of several districts of France’s second city following a strike, the third in four months, by garbage collectors, notably at the call of the Force Ouvrière (FO) union.